The National Disaster Management Organisation, NADMO at La Dade-Kotopon Municipality has taken to the street through float to further create awareness on dangers of disaster.
As part of their week long celebration of “International Day For Disaster Risk Reduction”, the NADMO officers last Monday, October 11, 2021 were on float through some principal streets in the Municipality to drum home the need for people to help prevent any kind of disaster that could maim them.
Floods are noted to be one of the common causes of disaster, and the rains have set in where it pours heavily at anytime it rains, hence NADMO demands people prepare in their small way to ensure they are not flooded and properties destroyed.
Disaster makes people face consequences like the danger of death or physical injury including lose homes, possessions or properties and communities. All these stressors were noted place persons at emotional risk and physical health problems.
According to NADMO, stress reactions after a disaster look very much like the common reactions after any type of trauma.
The float also forms part of the week long celebration on the theme; “Disaster Reduction, A Shared Responsibility”. The float started at 7am, at the LaDMA Assembly.
Today, October 13, 2021 some selected schools in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipality would take part in a quiz programme organised by NADMO in the area on interesting disaster topics to educate students on disaster and its prevention.
This forms part of the stractegy to catch them young to have disaster education deepened and how to mitigate the situation in order to reduce the disaster risk in their vicinities, and the country at large.
Story By: Delali A. Awuyeh/Nationaltymes.com
